The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-11

THE INCIDENT UNDER DEBATE IN
THE COMMONS.

GIle GONefunStlb lOT Iuo blOOuSnSO-
Bslfour Justifies the Action of the
Police-No Renewal of the Disturb
ance.
LONDON, Sept 10In the House of Com
mons to-day John G. Gibson, Solicitor Gen
eral for Ireland, in reply to an interroga-
tory by Mr.. Sexton, said that the govern
ment did not have sufficient information to
make statement in relation to the trouble
at Mitchellstown yesterday,
Upon receiving this answer to his ques-
tion, Mr.. Sexton said: 81 shall resist any
progress of the appropriation bill until the
government gives the desired information. "
LParnellite cheers.
All was quiet throughout the night at
Mitchelstown, the scene of yesterdays
rioting. All persons who were at yester-
days meeting have returned to their homes
Flfty-four constables were injured to such
an extent that medical services were re-
quired. One hundred and fifty civilians
were also injured.
WHAT THE POLICE SAY.
The police at Mitchellstown assert that
the trouble there yesterday was due to the
Nationalist leaders shouting for the mob to
hold together The town to-day is quiet
The Nationalists are exultant over the good
fight they made yesterday. A Tipperarv
boy broke through a square composed
of twelve policeman and fought them single
handed. The police finally overpowered
him, but the mob made rush and rescued
him from his captors The police paraded
this morning. A majority of them wore
bandages over the wounds they received
yesterday. Fourteen policemen who were
injured during the rioting were carried to
hospital.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that the mem
ory of old man Riordan, lying dead in the
Market place at Mitchellstown and his gray
hair matted with blood, will haunt both ma
tions for many days to come 1t il the duty,
the paper adds, of all leaders of the oppoSi-
tion to visit Ireland, Mr. Gladstone first, to
answer yesterdays bloody challenge.
The Globe says that O'Brien and his
friends have at last succeeded in bringing
about bloodshed. Upon them rests the
entire moral responsibility for the death of
those killed at Mitchellstown yesterday.
ANOTHER DEATH.
DUBLIN, Sept. 10.-Another person has
died from the effects of injuries received
during the rioting yesterday at Mitchells-
town.
Freemdn's Journal SAYS: 1.-THE blood
stain is indelibly attached to Balfour, Chief
Secretary for Ireland, and to the govern
ment.n The Journal accuses the officials of
sending a force of police and a reporter to
Mitchellstown, on whose evidence the war
rants against Mr.. O'Brien and Vaudeville,
poor law guardian, We're issued for the
special purpose of exasperating the crowd.
SEXTON BLAMEs THE GOVERNMENT.
In the House of Commons to-day Mr..
Sexton appealed to the government to give
such justification as they could for the muir
derous acts at Mitchellstown yesterday It
was beyond doubt, he said, that blood
shed had resulted from the wanton
attack of an armed force upon a body of
citizens engaged in the exercise of their un-
doubted constitutional right of public
meeting. On every previous occasion appli-
cation had been made for the accommoda-
tion of the govermentreporter and had never
been refused. This time no application was
made, but another course was adopted,
whose only apparent object was to excite
the passions of the people and provoke them
to violence. [Parnellite cheers. Who or
dered the firing? What steps had been taken
to identify the man who committed the
murders:
AN INEVITABLE RESULT.
The catastrophe was the inevitable result
of the language and acts of the government,
who had found it easier to begin than to end
the conflict. [Cheers.l
BALFoUR's VERSION.
Mr.. Balfour replied that Mr.. Sexton had
given an account of the affair more minute
and detailed than any he could lay before
the House, but which differed III every vital
and substantial particular from the
accounts the government had re-
ceived. The government reporter, said
Mr.. Balfour, under an escort
of police, attempted to approach the vehicle
from which the speakers were going to adj
dress the people; Mr.. Condor shouted to the
people to close up against the police. That
was the signal for an assault on the police,
which was utterly unprovoked and of a
most violent and brutal character.
They were pelted with stones and
blackthorn sticks, thrown out of
formation and ridden down by
men on horseback, and driven back inside
their barracks. The doors and windows of
the barracks were broken, and it was then,
in self-defense, that the shots were fired.
[Cheersl If this account were true, as he
believed it was, there never had beeu a
more wanton or brutal attack upon the
police. Renewed cheers.]
WAS THE SPACE CLEARED2
Mr.. Sexton asked: 80 you deny that the
space around the barrachs WAS entirely free
when the shots were fred
Mr.. Balfour, in reply, said he had given
the substance Of the reports telegraphed TO
him. Fifty-four of the police were struck,
and twenty of them severely injured. The
men did no more than their duty in
resorting to their means of defense
as last necessity. The responsibility rested
with the band of politicians calling them
selves the leaders of the Irish people, who
spoke of the government reporters as spies.
If those persons, instead of talking about
constitutional agitation, had exercised their
influence to keep the people within the law
the country would not have to deplore these
scenes.
Mr.. j. O'Connor justified Mr.. Condons
advice to the people 10 close their ranks.
The Irish members he said, were doing
their best to restrain the people while the
Irish officials were doing their utmost TO
provoke them.
Sir Edward Reed, member for Cardiff,
warned the government that the English
electors would resent interference with
public meetings The people OF Great Bri-
tain, he said, would not allow their fellow
subjects in Ireland TO be treated like the
people of Mitchellstown had been treated.